Billie Eilish and Finneas to Visitor Star on Mother’s New ‘Climate Kitchen’ Cooking Present
A new cooking show featuring two Grammy-winning artists as guests is headed to public media in 2027 — and behind it is the person who taught them how to cook.
Maggie Baird, the mother of Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell, announced on March 26 that she is creating a lifestyle cooking series called Climate Kitchen.
But the show is just part of a bigger project. Baird has also been writing a recipe book for her two kids — one filled with veganized family dishes and stories about the grandparents they never got to meet.
Why Maggie Baird Wrote a Family Recipe Book
Baird’s parents both died before her children were old enough to know them. So when she started compiling the recipes her kids kept requesting, she began weaving in family history that would otherwise be lost.
“Unfortunately, my parents both died, so my children didn’t grow up with grandparents, so I’ve been including those recipes and now I’ve been adding stories about them,” Baird told TODAY in an interview, published April 9.
The stories she included are small and specific.
“So they know how my mom made apple pie for my dad. She made cherry pie for my dad for years until he told her he didn’t actually like cherry pie. He liked apple,” she added.
Every recipe in the book has been veganized so Eilish and Finneas can enjoy them. Baird said she felt compelled to put them on paper because her kids would always ask her how to make certain things.
“So I really had to write them down and, you know, go, ‘OK, if you follow this recipe exactly, I promise you it will taste good. Now, feel free to change it anytime you want,’” she told TODAY.
What to Expect From ‘Climate Kitchen’
In 2020, Baird founded Support + Feed, a nonprofit organization that aims to combat climate change and food insecurity by promoting plant-based eating.
Now she’s expanding her cooking resume with a new series — with her kids support.
Baird’s new series will feature recipes for plant-based meals and tips for sustainable living. Eilish and Finneas, both of whom love to cook, will appear as guests on the show.
“Some the best days of the year are those where they join me in the kitchen or I join them in theirs,” she told People last month.
“It makes me so happy when they tell me they made one of the recipes,” she said of the recipe books she has made for them.
The show is slated to begin production later this year and to premiere on public media in 2027.
Maggie Baird’s Favorite Family Recipe
One dish stands out: sesame peanut noodles, inspired by Baird’s time living in New York in the 1980s.
“One of the only takeout things you could get at the time was these cold sesame noodles,” she told the outlet. “And then we moved to L.A., they didn’t really have those here.”
“Many, many decades ago now, I veganized that, and it’s always been a hit in our family,” she added.
Baird shares some of her recipes on the website for Support + Feed. Her spicy noodles recipe is among them.
“I always loved it when Billie or Finneas had friends over and I could pull this off quickly!” she writes on the website.
As for the spicy noodle and tofu soup, Baird said her daughter has made it her own. “She puts enough chili flakes in it to heat up a room! It’s delicious,” she told People.